Replication material for
Nationalism and the Puzzle of Reversing State Size
By Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, and Carl Müller-Crepon

Prerequisites
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- Stata > 16
- BTSCS package
wget http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmacmill/stata/btscs/btscs.ado
mkdir -p ~/ado
cp btscs.ado ~/ado
- SSC packages
ssc install estout, replace
ssc install ftools, replace
ssc install reghdfe, replace

Running replication procedure
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stata-se -b runall.do
Rscript mutinfo.R

Outputs
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Tables

Table 3 Losses and gains, Europe 1816-2017, Cox proportional hazard models
bridging/output/brdg_cox_main_stata.tex

Table 4 Losses and gains, World 1886-2017, Cox proportional hazard models
cshapesgreg/output/cshpgreg_cox_main_stata.tex

Table 5 Number of ethnic border change events as share of all events in Europe, 1816-2017.
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Table 6 Number of ethnic border change events as share of all events worldwide, 1886-2017.
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Table 7 Border-change events, Europe 1816-2017, Cox proportional hazard models.
bridging/output/brdg_cox_events_stata.tex

Table 8 Border-change events, World 1886-2017, Cox proportional hazard models.
output/cshpgreg_cox_events_stata.tex

Figures

Figure 1 Trends in mean state size in Europe and beyond.
comparisondata/StateSize3Trends.pdf

Figure 2 An ideal nation state and deviations from this ideal conceptualized as ethnic fragmentation of the state and territorial fragmentation of its dominant ethnic group.
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Figure 3 A schematic illustration of ethnic border change processes.
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Figure 4 Generating polygons for the Hungarian settlement area in the HEG Dataset.
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Figure 5 European trends in ethnic and territorial fractionalization.
bridging/output/FracGraph_Europe.pdf

Figure 6 Global trends in ethnic and territorial fractionalization. (Area-weighted measures based on CShapes 2.0 and back-projected ANM/GREG data.)
cshapesgreg/output/Trends_World.pdf

Figure 7 Ethnic border changes in Europe based on CShapes-Europe state borders and HEG ethnic map.
bridging/output/EthBorderChange_Europe.pdf

Figure 8 Ethnic border changes around the world based on CShapes state borders and backdated ANM/GREG data.
cshapesgreg/output/EthBorderChange_World.pdf

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Figure 9 Comparing ethnic and non-ethnic trends in mean state size with actual trend in Europe. (Based on CShapes-Europe state borders and HEG ethnic map.)
cshapes/output/Trends_World.pdf

[Figure 10 placeholder: trends_world.png]
Figure 10 Comparing ethnic and non-ethnic trends in mean state size with actual trend in Europe.
bridging/output/Trends_World.pdf
